Record Shelves??

http://www.ikea.ca/PIAimages/20070_PE059694_S4.jpg

http://www.ikea.co.uk/PIAimages/26349_PE090893_S3.jpg

Got six of the little buggers + an end unit, all full and nowhere else to go now.

I'm currently moving as many CD's as possible down into slimline cases.

After that the only conceivable option is a bigger house (yes, this already receiving serious consideration).

The vinyl's all hiodden away in a built-in double wardrobe in one of the bedrooms.

Did that help?

Do you have a link for that? Sorry to be a pain but records currently take up about 70% of my floor space and its getting a bit stupid. Thanks a lot.

My new custom-made CD shelves, just finished! All credit goes to my dad.
I had to stitch 3 pics together in Photoshop; that accounts for the weird perspective.

There's something much better you can buy there that holds records perfectly, as if they were made to be record shelves. Hold on whilst I find a pic...

I dream of them. The Ikea unit is bound to collapse under the weight of vinyl, and - worryingly - has no back support to brace it, so will gradually become a parallelogram!

(I have no evidence for such, and it is just my expectation)

and yeah, looks like you'd have to wire it to the wall for support... also maybe it would be wise to keep the top level of shelves free of vinyl to ease the weight... anyone who owns one have troubles with these issues?

http://www.ikea.ca/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10101&storeId=3&productId=11499&langId=-15&parentCats=10104*10173

Geez, the books pictured have to weigh more than that.

I have two of them and they hold my 600 LPs nicely, and there's ton's of space left over.

I don't have a pic of the 5x5 one, but it's the same as the 1st image in the thread, except with one more row of squares. See?

Mine is full, and isn't sagging or parallellogrammificatifying at all. It has corner braces, and comes with straps to hold it to the wall if your floor is angled and you've never heard of a shim.

Downsides: it's made of glue and sawdust, with that crappy Ikea laminate. You have to be gentle whilst assembling, but after that it's solid as can be.
Also, the instruction manual shows the assembler holding the unit aslant while a magic screw drills itself into the underside.

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http://www.woollymammoth.com/keith/whatever/ikea.htm

Even though you made it up.

It's easy to assemble, provided you have a magic floating allen key. Without such a device, you may need a friend.

i also moved into a place that the only place i can fit my shelves are under a staircase. this leaves a lot of empty space and looks kind of weird. so i'm having shelves custom made so that they gradually increase to fit better under the stairs. (the first column is one shelf, the next column is two shelves, etc up to two columns of four shelves.) i'm getting them done at this place in SF called it's pretty damn cheap. it's unfinished wood and is only costing me 300$).
http://stumasa.com/

there's also the Cubitec shelving units at Design Within Reach. they have these plastic units that you can put together in any format you like. they come in orange, brown and white and are reasonably inexpensive (well for DWR prices). the only problem is that they're only 10" deep so the records are gonna stick out a little bit.
http://www.dwr.com/productdetail.cfm?id=2989&fp=subc

http://www.ikea-usa.com/PIAimages/25362_PE097504_S3.jpg

The units on the lower right and top middle are sold separately and hold records PERFECTLY (just in case these aren't the same ones, measure the shelves). Unless I am mistaken, these are the ones I have.

http://containerstore.com/browse/index.jhtml?CATID=13385

That's what I used to use, but if I took out a large record (say, 1000 Hurts by Shellac), the stack of records would flay to one side or the other, so now it's just used for books and CDs. I still like the shelves depicted, but that maximum weight of 29 pounds is scaring me off.

12"=30cm.

but they look different...

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/ikeas_expedit_line_is_biting_the_dust_and_vinyl_nuts_arent_happy_about_it

Nooooooooooo

saw that earlier. I dont have any but need them for my room but no money to buy them.

Damn, I didn't know these existed in the first place.

Need to upgrade from a 4x4 to a 5x5, but I really have to wait until I've negotiated a new location in the house.

I have two of the 2x4 shelves that I have stacked "sideways" and then a 2x2 that I have my turntables on. They are exceedingly functional.

Here's some old photos:
http://i.imgur.com/MBJI7cO.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/1eB9JVp.jpg

Christgau posted a photo of his records shelves and Jesus, I can't imagine having that many records unless it was a job requirement (which it very much is for him).

Per Christgau, "gradually, of course, the thrill of getting LPs free dimmed as more arrived in the mail every day. And pretty soon we’d moved to a seven‑room Second Avenue apartment my wife Carola had found. By then I’d screwed together some industrial shelves—eventually six six‑shelf steel 12‑by‑36 jobs that hold some 240 vinyl LPs per shelf, 1440 per unit, and later there were more. Which means, although some now admittedly hold hi‑fi equipment and others have been retrofitted for compact discs, that most of what industrial shelves etc. remain otherwise unoccupied now accommodate some 36,000 vinyl LPs in our apartment alone—assuming I didn’t mess up the math."

(Top photo is a snapshot from a tiny storage unit. You get a glimpse of one shelving unit in the next photo.)

Coincidentally, NY1 just posted a news report on Ira Robbins, and they actually dropped by his Brooklyn apartment. His library isn't as enormous as Christgau's (who in addition to the 36,000 LP's also has another gigantic collection of CD's and another of books), but still immense at 36,000 albums across different formats. Video's short but it gives you an excellent glimpse. His layout is much neater and organized.